Planet Ubuntu Québec

In the spirit of fitting as much as I can onn my screen when using Gwibber, I needed to change its fonts. I was surprised to only see an option to change themes. There is a bug open about having font preferences in Gwibber (#460069) but it seems the fix was dropped. While I get ...

It just took a few minutes. Considering the massive amount of time Wikipedia saves me every day explaining technical terms and providing historical references to many projects and products I work with, it's time and money well spent. You can only resist Jimmy Wales for so long :)

(English version follows) LibreOffice 3.3 (release candidate 2) est disponible, grâce aux contributeurs de la Document Foundation. Comme vous l'avez probablement déjà constaté, LibreOffice sera la suite bureautique par défaut dans la prochaine version d'Ubuntu (11.04), du moins c'est le but pour Natty alpha 3 tel qu'indiqué sur le bogue #651124 LibreOffice Productivity Suite. ...

Dimanche prochain (30 janvier) de 14h à 16h je vais animer un atelier-formation sur les logiciels libres, plus particulièrement GNU/Linux (Ubuntu et Trisquel), Android, ainsi que quelques applications de bureautique comme LibreOffice. Apprenez à utiliser, modifier, dupliquer et diffuser ces logiciels complètement gratuits. Une façon intelligente d'utiliser vos outils informatiques. Venez même avec vos ordinateurs ...

Vendredi dernier, comme tous les vendredis, je suis allé au Bistro Araucaria pour l'Heure Ubuntu. Je m'y rends en bicyclette et tant qu'à rester chez moi les vendredi midi je viens au bistro et si des gens me rejoignent, tant mieux :) J'ai eu une belle surprise, plusieurs membre d'Ubuntu QC ainsi que deux ...

This just in: The Internet, January 25, 2011 – The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today. ...

If you're in Haiti or know anyone near Grand-Goave please let me know, I am here for a week and I'll be training a few teachers on a new lab we're putting together thanks to a donation via Micro Recyc Coopération. The training will focus on free software and its origins / advantages, using LibreOffice, ...

631 BACKERS $20,193 pledged of $25,000 goal 69 hours to go I really like the ideas and work presented by Novacut, so I decided to help the project by pledging some money to it. You can do it too. Here's a fan video (by filmmakers, heh) that explains well why this project is important - Ubuntu logo included. ...

Don't miss it! À ne pas manquer! This year I was able to bring two simultaneaous events together, in different locations. Cette année j'ai pu programmer 2 événements différents, ça se passe demain, à deux endroits différents :). Les détails à / All details at: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Canada/Montreal See you there! À demain!

I'd like to share a few projects and organizations that I'd love to see reaching their goals this time of the year. I want to stress how important it is to understand that donating even U$25 or U$5 or whatever you can is important. It's also an easy decision for many people (I am not ...

When you upgrade to Ubuntu after release, or when one of your friends, family or colleagues installs it for the first time, I trust they will like many of the new features or just appreciate finding everything they need in their new Ubuntu installation. I also trust in some cases they will encounter some ...

Do you love Python (or C)? Interested in video editing? Then you should definitely consider working on PiTiVi as part of the GNOME Outreach Programme for Women! Feel free to email me or Thibault about it, or catch us on IRC (some details about the program and how to get in touch with us are on this page)

Wait, let me give you an even better incentive. If you feel like email or IRC is too dry to carry complex discussions/questions, and would like a more personalized approach, I (and/or Thibault) will be glad to make an appointment with you for a live audio/video call over Empathy (through Jabber/XMPP/GTalk), Google Plus or even Skype. Just ask and we’ll make sure to be available to discuss every concern you may have.

PiTiVi is currently in a heavy state of flux and it is a bit tricky to list out the exact features that you could work on for the time being. This is one of the reasons why I’m offering an audio call. In the meantime you could take a quick look at the roadmap, pitivi love, but keep in mind that some of these items may be outdated or blocked by the transition to GES. The feature that we probably need the most right now is completing the implementation of the user interface for editing text/titles in PiTiVi: the work is partly done, your mission (if you accept it) would be to finish the UI and integrate it with our new GES backend.

Get in touch with us ASAP, there’s loads of stuff to be done and you only have until Halloween to apply for the GNOME Outreach Programme for Women!

Note that you will have to make a small patch/fix as part of your application, but we’ll gladly help you with it.